The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-23
Labor Notes.

Labor Notes
| Philadelphia Record.
/ A new blast-furnace is to be erected in St.
| Louis
The Canadian iron-makine interests are pros
| pering
Large railroad machine shops are to be built at
Macon, Ca.
| The car-builders are everywhere hesfng q
| busy time of it.
A large quantity of electric-lght apparatus is
going to Canada.
| A bridge is to be built across the Ohio at
Louisville; cost, 81 800. 0OO.
All the Augusta, Ga, mills have been shut
down on account of freshets.
An Indian order for twenty-one locomotives
has just been placed in England.
Several iron-works to be- restarted In
Wales to make steel bars for tin plates.
jaw Gould will erect sixteen large railroad
shops at Atchison, Kan; cost, $500 0O0
The miners, mill men and shop and factory
hands generally, quite busily employed.
New York electric-light company is shipping
big arc and incandescent plant to La Paz,
Bolivia.
Immense beds of coal, veins ranging from
eight to four feet, are found in northern
Alabama.
A goodly number of cotton operatives
going from Lancashire, Eng, to New England
and Canada
St Louis company with $500, 900 capital has
been formed to make paving blocks out of blast
furnace Stag.
Southington, Conn, firm is making ma
chlnery to be sent to England to make the Bar
tholdi burner.
Dover n. H., manufacturer has just shipped
a large consignment of leather betting to Mel
bourne, Australia.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at Rome, ~ Y, have
to be run day and night IN order to turn out
thirteen engines per month.
The average Pullman car costs $15. 600. The
dearest built cost SAC, 000 The Pullman
company employs 1900 persons.
One thousand coke ovens will soon be built
in the Connellsvile region, and also 400 tene
ments to accommodate goo workmen.
Alfred Krupp built g. 400 good tenements for
his workmen and established central store at
which everythipg was sold at cost price
Over LOCO hides were used TO make a belt
for Fall River concern. It is four feet wide
three thicknesses, 103 feet long and weighs 1900
pounds.
There are a great many combinations of firms
in various lines of business. These combna
tons found necessary to prevent unneces
sary competition.
Manufacturing establishments are increasing
their capacity in nearly all places. and little
shops and foundries are springing up in I'M
heard-of localities.
Horace Abbott, who recently died at Balti-
more at the age of 81, filled order from the
government for 250, 900 pounds of iron with
in forty eight hours after receiving it.
A Lawrence Mass, machine company has a
contract to make four pumps, each of which will
pump 1S,UOO gallons per minute or IL. UUU gallons
per minute in all. equal to $4,000 tons of water
per day.
A Bridgeport, Conn, concern is sending large
numbers of a family button hole machine to
India and Japan, and the Home sewing-machine
people have just received an order for fifty sew
iug-machines for Asia.
A large body of coking coal mas been found in
Indiana, and capital has been literally sub
scribed to develop it. Western mills and fouE-
dries within year two will be largely supplied
with coke made from Western coal.
branch of the Hotchkiss Company is to be
located at Hartford, Conn. Over 5000 of the
Hotchkiss guns have been made and sold TO all
countries. One man can discharge twenty three
six pound shells per minute with six-pound
gun.
Corrugated sheet-iron casks are used in Ger
many to transport liquids which expand by heat.
pounds TO the square inch, and are great saving
all around to manufacturers, storekeepers and |
consumers
The German system for pensionng workmen
in their old age will cause tax of three marks |
per year all, estimated at 1851 900 marks.
This will give state credit of about p. 000.-
900 marks. Workmen fifty years of age |
when the bill shall have passed will be |
excluded
English engineers throw fine film of dry |
sand under the drivers of their engines to pre-
vent slipping. 1t Is being introduced here, and |
an engine is being made at Boston with a single
pair of drivers and with the sand blast attach
ment It has been said that it can be made to
remarkably fast
Nearly 1,500 looms standing i6le at this /
time in Lowell, Mass, for want of operatives.
Throughout most of the leading textile manu-
featuring centers of New England tho same
complaint is made. The cause is the vacation TO
Canada which the well-pad operatives able
to take each summer. They absent from
two to six weeks.